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The Evolutionary Ethics of John Dewey

Jeff Carreira February 12, 2013 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 4 Comments

The American philosopher John Dewey wrote another of my favorite philosophy passages in the last paragraph of his 1898 essay Evolution and Ethics. Dewey articulates in this paragraph what he sees as a monumental leap …

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John Dewey

Everything Exists in Relationship

Jeff Carreira January 26, 2013 Blog Posts, New Paradigm Thinking 5 Comments

Things do not exist unless they exist in relationship with something else. In fact, things do not exist at all. Relationships exist. There are no individual things. The existence of anything is always contingent upon …

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Charles Sanders PeirceGeorge Herbert MeadJohn DeweyWilliam James

Art and the Evolution of Consciousness

Jeff Carreira November 12, 2012 Blog Posts, Creative Expression 6 Comments

Did you know that American Avant-Garde painters, writers and musicians in the 1950’s were inspired by evolutionary philosophy? I just completed a weekend program with a group that I co-teach called The Evolutionary Collective and …

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Everything Exists in Relationship

Jeff Carreira December 15, 2011 Blog Posts, New Paradigm Thinking 9 Comments

Things do not exist unless they exist in relationship with something else. In fact, things do not exist at all. Relationships exist. There are no individual things. The existence of anything is always contingent upon …

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Charles Sanders PeirceGeorge Herbert MeadJohn DeweyWilliam James

Is a Dog Really a Dog?

Jeff Carreira October 20, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 2 Comments

One of the great philosophical dividing lines has always been the line that separates the particular from the universal – the unique from the general.  We live in a world of both particulars and universals …

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Into The Human Flow

Jeff Carreira September 29, 2011 Blog Posts, Evolving Self 3 Comments

I am currently completely captivated by the image of a Human Flow. The American Pragmatist philosophers developed a view of humanity as a constant flow of activity and society was a flow of flows. There …

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George Herbert MeadJohn DeweyWilliam James

We are the Conscious Part of the Universe

Jeff Carreira April 17, 2010 Blog Posts 59 Comments

Now that I have got out some of my thoughts about the nature of truth I thought that I would respond directly to some of Chuck R’s earlier comment. (This is how this diversion got …

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John Dewey

Cosmos, Consciousness and Culture

Jeff Carreira January 27, 2010 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 7 Comments

It was almost exactly one year ago today that I started this blog so I guess this is my first anniversary post. I started the blog because I wanted to explore the relationship between classical …

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Riding the Currents on the Ocean of Mind

Jeff Carreira January 9, 2010 New Paradigm Thinking 9 Comments

I can describe the beautiful image that built in my mind as I read John Dewey’s book “Experience and Nature” by describing a vision of reality as currents in the ocean of mind. Think of …

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Communication and the Mind

Jeff Carreira January 7, 2010 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 11 Comments

I still have a few more thoughts about John Dewey’s profound book “Experience and Nature” to develop in this post and the next before I get to explain what hit me while I was reading …

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Charles Sanders PeirceJohn DeweyMartin Heidegger

Embracing Constant Flux

Jeff Carreira January 4, 2010 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 8 Comments

I am on a roll with John Dewey. I was reading through his book “Experience and Nature” for the second time and something finally clicked and I started to see what he was getting at. …

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The Individual and Society

Jeff Carreira November 12, 2009 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 15 Comments

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 –1831) was a leading figure in the movement of  German Idealism initiated by Immanuel Kant and Hegel’s philosophy  expanded on Kant’s theory of knowledge by adding a social and historical …

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The Evolution of Freedom in the Universe

Jeff Carreira June 10, 2009 Blog Posts, Human Freedom and Freewill 15 Comments

I am inspired by all of your thoughtful and provocative comments to my last post and captivated by this idea that what we experience as freewill is not actually a quality of a human being, …

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John Dewey

What is a “something” anyway? further consideration of Darwin and Dewey

Jeff Carreira May 22, 2009 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 3 Comments

In my last post I wrote about Darwin’s recognition that the idea of separate species was just that, an idea. And, as Brian astutely commented on that post, that doesn’t mean that there is no …

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Darwin and the Illusion of Separate Species

Jeff Carreira May 15, 2009 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 6 Comments

The American Pragmatists were all profoundly influenced by Darwin’s publication of “On the Origin of Species.” The originators of Pragmatism, including Charles Sanders Peirce who coined the term and William James who popularized it, were …

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John Dewey and the Unity of Mind and Matter

Jeff Carreira May 11, 2009 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 7 Comments

One of the challenges of the philosophy of Pragmatism is that it is too easy to reduce its complexity and subtlety to simple utilitarianism. Some of the same language that William James used to almost …

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John Dewey

The Curious Case of John Elof Boodin vs. Charles Darwin

Jeff Carreira April 5, 2009 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 12 Comments

The American philosophy of Pragmatism was in many ways a direct response to Darwin’s publication of “On the Origin of Species.” The early Pragmatists were trying to apply the same logic to philosophy that Darwin …

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